Fall 2011

From The Miss tHing Poems

From The Miss tHing Poems

In the restroom, Justin will cut off a lock of hair and give it to Miss tHing. Then, security will smuggle him out the backdoor. She will stuff the hair in her boyfriend’s mouth when he snores.

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B-Movie Romance

B-Movie Romance

A woman in a film lifts off her shirt like/ the first sharpened kid you saw pull his hair back/ to reveal a suspenseful face,/ memorably uncovered.

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Shine on Tu Loco Diamente

Shine on Tu Loco Diamente

The only copy of the album they had in stock was gold-plated, the collector's edition. It was 32 dollars. I was 16 and mostly cashless. Those protracted riffs and synthesizer solos were about to be my one and only asset. I held that copy of Wish You Were Here in my hands for ten minutes, wondering what I should do.

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Hunger

Hunger

When you're hungry/ You'll eat the paper and the pen and anything/ else/ you can write with/ When you're hungry/ poetry looks like so much filth/ Ham and potatoes/ look like glistening Gods

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The Beginning of Something, or the End

The Beginning of Something, or the End

The coffee maker refused to work. When I checked its wiring I received an electric shock that stuck a legendary pop song in my head. When I tried to make eggs, the shells were all empty or filled with red goop.

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A Glutton for Truth

A Glutton For Truth

The proof is in the pudding,/ but what exactly does that mean?/ 80%, 90%, 100% proof, I’d drink to that,/ then flop face down into the mushy mess.

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Murdering Your Darlings: Walt Whitman’s Revisions

Murdering Your Darlings: Walt Whitman’s Revisions

Whitman is an ideal choice for “Murdering Your Darlings” due to the fact that the bulk of his career was spent revising a single manuscript. In his lifetime, LEAVES OF GRASS cycled through no less than nine editions.

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